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What is SEO Spam? SEO spam is what attackers will inject into a website to attempt to use your SEO ranking for something else not ranked otherwise that will further the attackers’ objective. They spam and destroy the website while trying to generate revenue or…
Read More about How to Get Rid of the Most Common Types of SEO Spam
It’s not unusual to see website owners running things on a budget. Choosing a safe and reliable hosting company, buying a nice domain name, boosting posts on social media, and…
Often when a website is injected with SEO spam, the owner is completely unaware of the issue until they begin to receive warnings from search engines or blacklists. This is…
Read More about Hidden SEO Spam Link Injections on WordPress Sites
Perhaps the best way to dive into the subject of finding and removing SEO spam on WordPress is with a quick experiment — probably one you’ll want to conduct at…
We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What was especially frustrating for the…
Read More about Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam
If you’re wondering what is SEO spam, a good way to gain an understanding is finding this wily beast in the wild. In your favorite browser, search with the terms…
Read More about Spamdexing: What is SEO Spam and How to Remove It
Throwback Threat Thursday is a series of posts where we recall older vulnerabilities that have since been patched by their developers. In the past, these vulnerabilities caused significant impacts to…
Read More about Throwback Threat Thursday: Joomla GoogleMaps Plugin SEO Spam Injection
It’s very common for us here at Sucuri to face SEO injections on almost any type of CMS-based site. Today, I’ll be presenting how one particularly ingenious malware manages to…
We handle an enormous number of SEO spam infections here at Sucuri. In Q3 of 2016, approximately 37% of all website infection cases were related to SEO spam campaigns through…
Read More about Malware Serving SEO Spam from External Sites
We already discussed in our blog some cases where the attacker uploaded a full ready-to-use website in order to promote their products and services. This is a well-known SEO spam…
Many websites get compromised and used for SEO in order to drive traffic to other websites that would usually be ranked very low or completely removed by Google due to…
